siewkumhong.blogspot.com Archives - 05 February 2012, Sunday

The Straits Times ran a story on PAP MPs' rebuttals of Mr Chen Show Mao's speech on ministerial salaries. [note: the ST story is completely available for free, but it may not stay fully available for long] Below is the text of what I wrote on Facebook about these PAP MPs' so-called re...

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The Straits Times ran a story on PAP MPs' rebuttals of Mr Chen Show Mao's speech on ministerial salaries. [note: the ST story is completely available for free, but it may not stay fully available for long] Below is the text of what I wrote on Facebook about these PAP MPs' so-called re...

for them. I basically halved the word count and added what I read in the Straits Times about what Mr Chiam See Tong and Prof Walter Woon had said in 1994 (which Mr Chiam had repeated in 2000). Answering the wrong question on ministerial salaries by Siew Kum Hong Published in TODAY on ...

the report by the Committee to Review Ministerial Salaries should be well-known, so I won't rehash them. A search on "singapore ministerial salaries" will quickly bring you up to speed. There have always been two types of criticisms leveled at ministerial salaries. The first category ...

the report by the Committee to Review Ministerial Salaries should be well-known, so I won't rehash them. A search on "singapore ministerial salaries" will quickly bring you up to speed. There have always been two types of criticisms leveled at ministerial salaries. The first category ...

the report by the Committee to Review Ministerial Salaries should be well-known, so I won't rehash them. A search on "singapore ministerial salaries" will quickly bring you up to speed. There have always been two types of criticisms leveled at ministerial salaries. The first category ...

I was away for most of December, so I missed the two big recent news stories, namely the SMRT fiasco and Seng Han Thong’s appearance on BlogTV. I’ve been in two minds about writing on the latter incident, but finally decided to do so thanks to the remarks by Law and Foreign Minister K...

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I was away for most of December, so I missed the two big recent news stories, namely the SMRT fiasco and Seng Han Thong’s appearance on BlogTV. I’ve been in two minds about writing on the latter incident, but finally decided to do so thanks to the remarks by Law and Foreign Minister K...

on 22 August 2011 (and I take no credit for, and am not guilty of the clunky headline!). Face to Face 2 challenged all preconceived beliefs about the Presidential Candidates by Siew Kum Hong Viswa Sadasivan asked me if it was ok to start. It was 8.35pm, about 15 minutes ahead of the s...

It is as if the PAP is determined to prove that leopards cannot change their spots. The People's Association can try its best to spin the truth, but the latest revelation from the Workers' Party completely destroys any plausible deniability that could possibly be left. The Workers' Pa...

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It is as if the PAP is determined to prove that leopards cannot change their spots. The People's Association can try its best to spin the truth, but the latest revelation from the Workers' Party completely destroys any plausible deniability that could possibly be left. The Workers' Pa...

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This article was first published on The Online Citizen on August 8, 2011 I consider myself a child of the ’80s. Born in 1975, I first became conscious of the world around me in the 1980s. Even by Singapore’s standards, there were a lot of changes in that decade. Many of these changes ...

The Workers' Party has now cemented its position as the second party in a two-party system, albeit one that remains heavily skewed in favour of the People's Action Party. The WP will be celebrating its groundbreaking win in Aljunied GRC, and rightly so. The strong results of even its ...

I made it a point to catch the Workers' Party rally tonight. It's their first rally, and I wanted to see Low Thia Khiang, Sylvia Lim, Chen Show Mao and Yaw Shin Leong in action. I also wanted to see -- for myself -- just how big the crowd is. The second question is easier to answer: i...

I should have added that so far in this campaign, I have respected SM Goh Chok Tong for his call to keep things "clean" (even though it is self-serving since Tin Pei Lin is in his GRC, but it was the right thing to say), Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng (and indeed the rest of PAP)...

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This post will be short, because I am on a business trip right now. But I feel compelled to write this quickly before going back to work, because I am that disgusted and upset. The PAP recently unveiled 27-year-old Tin Pei Ling as a potential candidate in the upcoming elections. What ...

This post will be short, because I am on a business trip right now. But I feel compelled to write this quickly before going back to work, because I am that disgusted and upset. The PAP recently unveiled 27-year-old Tin Pei Ling as a potential candidate in the upcoming elections. What ...

"In my 15-year involvement in the industry, I have not known of any government funding for upgrading the facilities of privately owned centres, so I cannot see how this can lower the cost of preschool education in such centres. There is also no reason for the Government to fund the up...

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"In my 15-year involvement in the industry, I have not known of any government funding for upgrading the facilities of privately owned centres, so I cannot see how this can lower the cost of preschool education in such centres. There is also no reason for the Government to fund the up...

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I received an email from Hri last night -- he mentioned that he had been trying to respond to my last post the past couple of days, but for some reason had not been able to post the comment. He then asked for my help to publish it. Given the length of his response, and also the attent...

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posted a comment in response to my piece "Room for fresh ideas on income gap ". I missed it earlier but was just told about it. Here is his comment in full: Kum Hong, How does this idea work? If an able-bodied person decides that he does not want to work, do we all have to ensure that...

I wrote this over Saturday morning. The ideas in this piece had been percolating in my head over the past week, and they all came together and gushed out over a few hours. First published in today's TODAY. Room for fresh ideas on income gap Keep our economic model, but set up endowmen...

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I was a little bemused (and later amused) to see a letter in ST Forum on 29 Jan, that basically insinuated that I had become a Nominated Member of Parliament as an "attention-gathering exercise" and a stepping stone to entering partisan politics. I finally found the time to draft and ...